Oregon · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE (Oregon) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,964,159 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,038,900). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Partnership for Safety and Justice does
Mission
Partnership for safety & justice (psj) advances safety, accountability, and healing through approaches that prioritize care over punishment. Our work focuses on strengthening communities, improving outcomes for people affected by crime, and fostering systems that promote safety and well-being for all oregonians.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shrinking the corrections system: we believe that far too many people convicted of crime are incarcerated or under some other form of correctional control. Overcriminalization and reliance on incarceration as the default response to crime raises barriers to safe, just, and healthy communities. We advocate for reinvestment of public resources in approaches that are more effective, less damaging, and meet the needs of the people most directly impacted both by crime and the criminal justice system, including crime victims, people who have caused harm, their families, and their communities. Example: successful prevention of the expansion of prisons for women one of the fastest growing populations of incarcerated adults.
$172,780 spent12% of program spendingBuilding local solutions: psj develops and advocates for essential services that crime survivors need to rebuild their lives as well as innovative local alternatives to criminalization and incarceration. We address the underlying causes of crime by promoting accountability, healing, and safety through community-centered approaches, such as restorative justice, harm reduction, and health-based responses. Example: enactment and expansion of the family sentencing alternative program.
$161,322 spent11% of program spendingTransforming expectations of the criminal justice system: we work to establish holistic reforms that address the needs of the people most directly impacted by crime and the criminal justice system, rather than the system itself. We specifically focus on communities of color to ensure effective prevention, accountability, and expansion of resources needed to build healthy, safe communities. Example: particpation in successful opposition to efforts to increase criminalization of noncitizens and eliminate oregon policies that protect its resident immigrants and their families.
$334,569 spent23% of program spendingAdvocacy leadership academy: we mobilize people to act on critical issues through community events, advocacy opportunities, and educational forums. The advocacy leadership academy prioritizes individuals from bipoc communities and others who have been affected by the criminal justice system.
$37,020 spent3% of program spendingHealth justice recovery alliance: fiscally sponsored by the Partnership for Safety and Justice, the health justice recovery alliance is the statewide recovery advocacy coalition working to ensure that the drug addiction treatment & recovery act is implemented fully and without delay, centering the needs of communities most harmed by the war on drugs black, latinx, native and tribal communities.
$771,958 spentof which $900 as grants$73,800 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,477,649.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.6M (+50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Iris Maria Chavez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $373k → $1.4M.
11 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 48% · 2019 43% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 39% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $774k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Safety and Justice Oregon · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE (Oregon) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,964,159 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,038,900). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $6,964,159 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,038,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing